OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Embedding participatory governance	25
Multilateralism as a ‘site’ of struggle over environmental knowledge: the North-South divide	22
Contours of historical-materialist policy analysis	20
Democratic innovations after the post-democratic turn: between activation and empowerment	13
Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy	11
Institutions, Networks and Activism Inside the State: Women’s Health and Environmental Policy in Brazil	11
Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland	11
Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management	10
Promoting the digital future: the construction of digital automation in Swedish policy discourse on social assistance	10
Emotions, affect and social policy: austerity and Children’s Centers in the UK	10
Mechanisms of metapower & procedural injustices in the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force decision-making process	10
Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	9
Policy narratives: the perlocutionary agents of political discourse	9
Can Mindfulness really change the world? The political character of meditative practices	9
Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance	8
Fear of the other: vulnerabilization, social empathy, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	8
Job search success among the formerly-unemployed: paradoxically, a matter of self-discipline	8
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system	7
Emotional problems: policymaking and empathy through the lens of transnational motherhood	7
Is ‘Health in All Policies’ everybody’s responsibility? Discourses of multistakeholderism and the lifestyle drift phenomenon	7
Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change	6
Culture and tax avoidance: the case of Italy	6
‘Close but not too close’ – experiences of science-policy bridging in three international advisory organizations	6
The ghostwriting of a global policy script: international organizations and the discursive construction of conditional cash transfers	6
Workfare and food in remote Australia: ‘I haven’t eaten… I’m really at the end…’	6

The technocratic rationality of governance - the case of the Danish employment services	5
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation	5
Between autonomy and embeddedness: project interfaces and institutional change in environmental governance	5
Competitive knowledge-economies driving new logics in higher education – reflections from a Finnish university merger	5
Flows of power: an analytical framework for the study of collaboration	4
Feeling critical: navigating the emotional worlds of COVID-19	4
Protected how? Problem representations of risk in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)	4
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: navigating voices of ambiguity and concern	4
From time to time: a systems-theoretical perspective on the twofold temporality of governing	3
Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language	3
Why do political parties promote participatory governance? The Brazilian Workers’ Party case	3
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	3
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: the interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders	3
Interpreting crises through narratives: the construction of a COVID-19 policy narrative by Canada’s political parties	3
Making sense ofpot: conceptual tools for analyzing legal cannabis policy discourse	3
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	3
Framing children’s lives through policy and public sphere debates on COVID-19: unequal power and unintended consequences	3
Implementation of indigenous public policies and tensions to governance: evidences from the Chilean case	3
Global governance through peer review: the Dutch experience of OECD reviews of National Policies for Education	3